Talk 5, Tibetan - English
0:01:35 Reading transmission continues with the 13th emptiness (book page 201)
End of the reading transmission : 0:12:08
From 0:12:38 « questions and answers » (mainly about how to meditat properly)
0:15:43 quote Jamgön Kontrul Lodrö Taye, from his « Treasury of Knowledge », about how to meditate according to the Autonomy School.
0:38:10 mention Madjik Labdrön and the way she taught her students to practise based on the 16 emptinesses, making one meditation session out of each emptiness.
« When you are free of the arrogance of clinging to appearance or to emptiness
All demons are cut through within the mind
And mind itself is free in the unborn expanse »...
0:41:28 Rinpoche gives instruction for meditation
0:43:48 Rinpoche quotes Gyalwa Gotsangpa
« Having the finest food and drink
and living in hunger without nourishment
These distinctions don't exist in the pure expanse
So how joyful, how happy sudden victory »
0:47:00 More questions
0:49:00 More advice for meditation. Rinpoche laughs a lot.
From 1:15:42 – 1:19:26 singing together of Milarepa's « Athentic portrait of the Middle Way »
Then silence until 1:21:28
1:21:47 – 1:22:16 Dedication : « May we live long.. »
Rinpoche's last words to the audience :
« My parting aspiration is that you progress in a better and better way on the path that brings together emptiness and compassion and that through this you develop the ability to be a benefit to your friends, to your enemies, to all sentient beings. »
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